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Session Date	May 18 2025
Seam Dates	Jul 30 5941 - Sep 12 5941

Back to Velour

12.5 days to get back to the Leeward Crossroads

7.5 days to get back to Velour

If continuous journey. 19th August arrival back in Velour.

Biri’s Chat with Ashok

Actually happy to have more Dragonborn around
Learning about the betrayal, he’s happy to have been able to help the people he has
Not sure how he would have liked being stuck on an island in the middle of nowhere
“Faith means pushing through the hard times. And it looks like it’s paid off for me”

Agni Magmin

Empedocles meeting that evening

Rashida Rivers - Water Genasi
- Blue skin that almost seems to swirl
- Short bob haircut tucked behind her ears
- Wearing turqoise scholarly robes
- Wide spectacles
- Quite studious, asks a lot of questions
Vasha McCloud - Air Genasi
- Pale skins
- White hair that seems to almost float like gravity doesn’t affect it
- Tall and wearing a long floaty dress with leather shoulder pauldrons
- Quite floaty, loses attention easily
Brick - Earth Genasi
- Broad
- Black mohican
- Wearing a leather jacket with cut off sleeves
- Tattoos down both arms in primordial patterns.
- Friendly face

The Caves

Orignal pitch:

Overview
Out in the black there is a cave network that was sundered from the top of a mountain in Hades itself before being cast into the Seam. The cave contains the Planar Gem of Hades at it’s centre, it’s power is being amplified throughout the fiend infested cave network.

Document
The Hallowdawn have the following document regarding a potential object of power.

A trader that was lost in the black reported to the Hallowdawn ships that retrieved her that there was a network of caves that where she could hear wind howling and screeching through the caverns.

The caves were found by Hallowdawn ships a few days later. The crews had to be rotated off and on frequently as the piercing screeches from this ethereal wind were too much to bear for extended periods of time.

The caves are located at (-1589,1623,-963), in the black. The Hallowdawn have a small setup at (-1000, 1500, -1000) with emergency fuel supplies if required, but this should be used as a last resort.

The Wind

The Wind is not wind. No one could actually feel a wind. It’s moans and screams.

Despair

Despair Rules: DMG p52
Exhaustion: DM p63

Entering the Caves

They see the larvae crawling the walls moaning. Screams of creatures running through the dark.

Night Hag 1x in the night causing problems

Haunting a player

Rakshasa causing problems

Going to take one of the PCs in the night

Navigating

Finding the way through the caves, winding. All colour leeches out of the air
Going to take multiple days to get through this thing.
Infernal Symbols on the wall to navigate by.
Meet a barbed devil who knows where it is

Final chamber, circular, with the gem in the middle. The PC that was captured is tied up.

Caely’s Deep Speech Book

🕯️ Ritual Spell: “Summon the Maw Beyond”
Spell Type: Ritual
Casting Time: 10 minutes
Components: V, S, M (a black candle made of tallow and void ichor, which burns without flame)
Effect: Summons one aberration (DM’s discretion: e.g., a Star Spawn Grue, Slaad, or custom horror).

📜 Incantation in Deep Speech
“Vr’th’naa… egruhl zhach’thûlth.
Kh’len droh vûl’zeerh… fasshoth uk grînkhal.
Zhul… Zhul… Zhul… Et’khra Narlaxoth!”
“Ehz’nagh ur-thir’kûl… theh-nagh eh ghrol.
Ehla’shegg… g’harnulû… rehkt’kazhul… shraagh.
From the dark. It hears. It comes.”

🕯️ Translation (for the Player’s Eyes Only)
“Open the veil… it writhes unseen.
The black tongue calls… and the cracks bleed whispers.
Name it… Name it… Name it… And it hungers.”
“Its breath is rot, its thoughts are oil.
It remembers the womb of silence.
From the dark. It hears. It comes.”

It summons an Intellect Devourer.

Need co-ordinates for the Empedocles Hideout

Victory’s sister is water, maybe??

Shopping

Jeff the Gnome’s Magic Emporium

Periapt of Wound Closure - 350g Bought
Boots of Elvenkind - 500g
Gauntlets of Ogre Strength - 500g Bought
Amulet of Proof Against Detection and Location - 150g Bought 3
Shortsword of Venom - 1500g Bought
Ring of Protection - 1000g Bought
Wand of the War Mage +2 - 1500g Bought
Sending Stones - 200g for 3 Bought
Mace of Disruption - 2000g
Mace of Smiting - 2000g

Discounted in total by 80%

Temple Donation

Biri donates 100g to the Temple.

Victory tries to break into Caely’s Warehouse

Wanted to practice summoning Fire Elemental

Departure

Travelling via the Upper Wyroads, the party make it to The Caves after 18 days.

Arrive on 6th September

Contract

They have two years to find a replacement for the Rakshasa of the Spire of Hades. They must be deemed a worthy replacement by the Rakshasa and sign a contract with them to take over their role.

Due Date: 9th September 5943

If they fail:

Biri won’t stop Ashok from being taken by minions of the Rakshasa. Ashok will not be killed by the Rakshasa or directly or by the Rakshasa’s minions
Victory’s rank will be taken from her.
Caely’s ships will be owned by the Rakshasa and taken (ships as of the current date)

In payment the Rakshasa led them out of the caves, and will keep the Gem secure. He will also to the best of his ability inform the party if someone comes for the gem.

Exit

It takes three days to leave and you leave on the 12th September 5941.

Seam Explanation

The Seam, as a jacket is 90 years old.
Time has been compressed to make it work.
The compression has the effect of pulling in people from both the past and future into it.

Next Time

Give co-ordinates for the abandoned Water Office of the Empedocles as they’ll want to try and head there.
Gem locations:
- Hallowdawn:
  - Abyss
  - Beastlands
  - Ghenna
  - Mechanus
  - Mt. Celestia
- You have secured with Allies:
  - Limbo
  - Hades
- Unknown
  - Acheron
  - Arborea
  - Arcadia
  - Bytopia
  - Careceri
  - Elysium
  - Nine Hells
  - Pandemonium
  - Ysgard
Callum decided not to level you up as he wanted you to get more comfortable with you capabilities.
Callum should probably try and get the Githzerai researchers to provide them with a lead for a gem
- Preferably a “Good” gem.
I should probably come up with a new dream visit for Caely. Let’s really push what she’d do. The aim is to make her feel trapped.

Idea:

The Calamity isn’t a destruction of everything, it’s a pull of everything into the Seam.
The people from out there and the food and farmland and cities are all pulled in.

Creating a “second era” for The Seam. It’s detached from the jacket as the jacket was destroyed. Instead it become a real plane of it’s own. Standing alone. People can freely traverse through a new astral gate.

However, this only happens if our heroes prevent total collapse.
Acquiring enough gems will allow the heroes to find the true path forward.
The Hallowdawn only think of destruction, Ozak detests the seam and wants it destroyed at all costs.
That is his true motivation, not only escape, but destruction of that which he has despised.

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